Even one’s family, society and nation comes afterwards respectively.
‘A strong sense of individual responsibility that forces everyone to consciously think over one’s actions and attitudes also protects every person against the daily bombardment with disinformation and bewildering propaganda of various kinds by the modern media, which is beneficial for a healthy, democratic and peaceful society.’ Especially in today’s world when one is under constant influence in context of even one’s diet, Jain ethics continuosly motivate one to have one’s own thoughts and choices in each matter.
The purpose of being mindful, all the time, is simply to improvise the self and to accept others as they are. ‘If you learn to love everything, the humblest, the least, the meanest, then the meanest in you will be loved.’ At the same time to keep introspecting within to eliminate one’s own imperfections.
Wonderfully one’s desire of being ethical is not and can never be, a forced phenomenon but one’s own, innate desire to return to one’s true nature that is happiness. ‘Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men are free men.’ Indeed happiness is